Nikolaos Mellios, M.D., Ph.D., April 26, 2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico
Title: “Out with the old and in with the new – the role of circular RNAs in psychiatric disorders”

Peyman Golshani, M.D., Ph.D., April 12, 2017
Associate Professor,Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Title: “Changes in inhibitory/ excitatory connectivity and neural network dynamics in a model of autism”

2016

Francesca Happé, Ph.D., November 2, 2016
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
Title: “‘Theory of mind’ and Autism: 30 years on”

Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., Ph.D., May 11, 2016
Professor/Co-Director, University of Rochester/University of Copenhagen
Title: “Ionostatic control of the sleep-wake cycle”

Peter Kind, Ph.D., April 20, 2016Director of the Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and Intellectual Disability; Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh
Title: “The pathophysiology of Fragile X Syndrome: From cell to circuit to behaviour”

Paola Arlotta, Ph.D., October 14, 2015
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Title: “Development and Reprogramming of Neuronal Diversity in the Neocortex”

Robert M. Joseph, Ph.D., September 30, 2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine
Title: “Prevalence, Associated Features and Early Antecedents of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns at Age 10 Years”

Kimberley McAllister, Ph.D., September 16, 2015
Associate Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis
Title: “Novel roles for immune molecules in brain development and psychiatric disorders”

Stephen Scherer, Ph.D.,FRSC, October 8, 2014
Director, the Centre for Applied Genomics and the University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre, the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Title: “Autism Spectrum and Related Disorders: So many genes involved”

David Mandell, Sc.D., September 10, 2014
Associate Professor, Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Title: “Storming the Ivory Tower: Why Autism Interventions Don’t Work as They Should in the Community and What To Do About It”

Ron Suskind, March 12, 2014
Senior Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Title: “Mapping the substructures of common affinities for ASD population to create tools for intellectual and emotional growth”

2013

Shafali Spurling Jeste, M.D., December 18, 2013
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Neurology Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Director, Electrophysiology Core, UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment
Title: “Resting State and event related electroencephalography as biomarkers of learning and cognitive ability in young children with ASD: Can we parse the heterogeneity?”

Marsha Mailick, Ph.D., December 4, 2013
Vaughan Bascom and Elizabeth M. Boggs Professor and Director, Waisman Center, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Trajectories of Life Course Development in Adolescents and Adults with Autism”

Gagan Joshi, M.D., November 20, 2013
Director of the Autism Spectrum Disorders Program in the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinical and Research Program and Medical Director of the Bressler Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: “Clinical and Neural Correlates of Autism and Associated Psychopathology”

Evan Eichler, Ph.D., October 23, 2013
Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Title: “Autism: New Mutations, Genes and Pathways”

Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D., April 17, 2013
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology
Title: “Investigating the social brain: autism, the amygdala, and connectivity”

Stephen Camarata, Ph.D., April 3, 2013
Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Investigator, John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Development and Disabilities, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Title: “Multisensory Processing and Auditory Comprehension Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)”

Gaia Scerif, Ph.D., September 19, 2012
University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Title: “Mechanisms of risk and resilience through disorders of known genetic origin”

Ben Philpot, Ph.D., February 1, 2012
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Title: “A new angle on Angelman syndrome”